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Many thanks for use of these photos, all taken about seven years ago, to Barry Petersen. Vessels are: Bayridge Service, Eileen Roehrig and barge Houston on delivery, Tenacious, Barbara Andrie, Samuel de Champlain, H. H. Misner, Commodore Straits, and Techno St. Laurent.
Twenty four hours does include more darkness now than light, so here were: Algoma Transport at the dock in Port Colborne, Algoma Hansa, Algoeast, Cedarglen, Petite Forte, Peter B. Cresswell, Fortunagracht, and . . . now northbound, Algoma Transport. And there’s no better place to watch all night long than from the Inn at Lock 7.
Here were the first and second in this series. And I could renumber and make this #4, since I posted a screen grab of tug in Carlito’s Way here . . . last shot there . . . which turned out to be Dorothy Elizabeth. Anyhow, the “grab” is somewhat blurry, but any guesses about the name of the movie or info on the boat?
The figure near the stern here is actually Robert DeNiro . . .
And the movie is . . . here.
The light was present for LCM-8010 and Sarah Desgagnes, but . . . my white whale . . . Everlast . . . passed at 0300, which made for a not very interesting photo.
Ah . . . failure breeds persistence.
Bear with me here. I got up at 0430 and caught the 0535 Long Island Railroad (LIRR) to Penn Station. On the LIRR, marathoners. In Penn, I caught the #1 subway to the Staten Island Ferry (SIF); at 0615, it was standing room only on the subway, worse than on a work day rush hour except all marathoners. These are the stairs leading up to the SIF, all marathoners almost.
Here’s from the roof of the ferry terminal on Staten Island looking south. See that line of people?
They’re all waiting for a shuttle bus ride (approx 3 miles) to the starting line.
I was there to watch a particular marathoner, so I made my way to a pier. Double click on these fotos to enlarge them. The FDNY water display was intended for all 48,001 marathoners, including my favorite, who has the distinction of being accommodated to pass UNDER the bridge rather than over it.
Recognize her?
Escorted along the end of this leg of her ongoing marathon by Marjorie B. and Robert E. McAllister, it’s
you guessed it, the only contestant to negotiate the sixth boro, Alice Oldendorff. If you’re new to this blog, type Alice into the upper left search window and you’ll see the particulars between Alice and me.
I recall seeing Alice back in 2005, and since then she’s deliver several million tons of Canadian maritime aggregates into the port, the stuff you need to build and maintain a metropolis. She’s an indefatigable marathoner.
What a day for her to arrive.
All fotos and fabricated view of reality by Will Van Dorp.
For NY Daily News pics of the race, click here.
Sunsets can gild and indemnify the efforts of the day. A lightship can help safely navigate the impending darkness.
but sunsets can also torment. Although it’s the last day of September and progress has been very slow in trying to raise the $$ to save Bertha,
there is still time. Someone must know someone who
can help so that this hull gets completed, surfaces get gets sandblasted and repainted, and all the rest so that
this handiwork will be complemented with
clear views out these lights, and
celebration.
So that these D13000 speak again.
And splash gurgle back out to sea
Anchors lowered
get raised.
Help.
Final foto by Allen Baker. All others by Will Van Dorp, whose previous Bertha posts were here and here.
Here’s Bertha‘s blog.
Here was 22.
Fotos today come from David Gardiner and Paul Strubeck. David took fotos 1 and 3 on September 1 at dawn. More of David’s beautiful work can be found at DaveGarPhoto.
Paul–who has frequently contributed fotos on this blog including one of my all-time favorites here–says both fotos here were taken in the Welland Canal. The one below dates from 1978.
Another of David’s fotos of Discovery Coast.
This one from Paul dates from 1974.
And a half hour before David took the spectacular sunrise fotos in Gowanus Bay on September 1, I took this one of James Turecamo, an indefatigeable 44-year-old.
Many thanks to David and Paul.
. . . literally hangs in the balance in the next weeks. This 1925 Tyne River-built flat-bottomed timber tug needs $150,000 pledged, or . . . I’ll come back to the ” . . . or” To pledge, click on the image of the tug to the left, click on the contribute button, and follow the prompts.
Bertha was one of four of these tugs used to move booms of timber to the mill in the Bay of Islands area of western Newfoundland starting in the mid-1920s. Click here for fotos of that timber operation; particularly appropriate are fotos # 189, 259, and 263.
Darren Vigilant (below) bought Bertha in 1999, drove her to New York, and if you were paying attention to the harbor from that time, you might recall seeing it. Click here to see fotos from then as well as an illustrated history of the vessel and lists of what has been done and remains. Currently, she’s in a yard in Staten Island.
I took these fotos last weekend and will
be adding followups in the weeks to come.
But the clock is ticking. Here is the ” . . . or else” part.
Time is running out, and Bertha could be scrapped and added to the half million dollar pile of metal chunks.
Shudder the thought.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who’d love to see any fotos you might have of Bertha sailing in New York harbor between 1999 and 2003. Click on the image below to hear Darren make a plea for the boat.
Actually the key is making it possible for the helicopter to find you. In some cases, assisting the task of arriving at your location makes the difference between life and death; things don’t always go so well. On a windy unsettled afternoon last week I happened to be there when
an obsessively circling C-130 over Oswego’s lighthouse demanded attention. I wish I’d stumbled onto this scene the day they trained search & rescue with a Reaper drone. Here’s another link about that drill.
As it was, the helicopter here working with the USCG puzzled me, and
having no VHF or binoculars, I couldn’t tell whether the debris on the jetty was just drifted remains of a Lake Ontario shoreline tree, but
someone had certainly swum to proximity of rescuer.
In the half hour that followed at least a half dozen “winchings up” and “down” before
it returned to USCG Station Oswego. Click here for their flickr page. Click here for info on the blue-yellow structure to the lower left, NYS Derrick Boat 8, the last steam-powered barge (with dredge capabilities at one time) on the Erie Canal . . . maybe even in New York . DB8 is also known as Lance Knapp, named for a salvage diver.
A half year ago I watched a helicopter rescue drill here.
All fotos taken within an hour by Will Van Dorp. Here was my previous swimming post.
PS: Enjoy the additional fotos below from the Port of Oswego, showing schooner OMF Ontario, LT-5, and fishtug Eleanor D, and Oswego West Pierhead Light.
Here was 10 about an honest Navy tug turned narco-mothership, possibly, and wondering where she now may be.
I owe this post to tugboathunter, who caught not only a major typo in yesterday’s post but also presented me a key to understanding an unusual looking trawler called Nomada. I’ll be direct . . . two, three, four decades ago she was an austere tugboat called Colinette (little hill) working in Canada. See addition at the end of this post. Six and seven decades ago she was a Royal Canadian Navy tug that crossed the Atlantic to operate out of unidentified ports in the UK. My source for all this is here, which tugboathunter pointed me toward.
An hour and some after dawn yesterday I caught this fotos, and imagined she was a rough-cut Krogen type trawler, a scaled-down coastal freighter replica, or some hybrid thereof.
Who would think she started life 70 years ago on Owen Sound.
I’d love to see interior fotos.
All these shots by Will Van Dorp.
And this just in from Jason LaDue, Colinette back in November 1999.
What a retrofit job!
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